Seven Days: Jan 15 - 21, 2024 (Bonus Edition)

This Week in Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan News

Stories from the Press

• Blood On The Tracks Revisited (Mojo) [8]

  • “We were totally confused because he was trying to teach us a new song with another one playing in the background. I was thinking to myself, Just remember, Eric, this guy’s a genius. Maybe this is the way geniuses operate.”

• Lionel Richie: Writing “We Are the World” (Hollywood Reporter) [5]

  • "Poor Bob was having a nervous breakdown. He’s trying to sing it. And we said, “No, we don’t want you to sing it, just do it like Bob Dylan.” Now, Bob Dylan has an identifiable voice instantly. But he was trying to sing it another way. We kept saying, “No, just sing it like Bob Dylan.” But did you see that look on his face? He was like, well, what does that sound like?"

• Should Minnesotans Claim Bob Dylan? (Racked) [5]

  • "He was operating in these very hallowed cultural spaces, where it just would not have been cool to admit you're a chicken little kid from nowhere Minnesota, and …